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(No Model.)

C. MAGHRIS.

PRINTING MACHINE.

No. 318,383. Patented May 19, 1885.

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*jjUN iran 'Straw-js PATENT OFFICE.

A CHARLES MACHRIS, OF DETROIT, `MCHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF THREE-FOURTHS TO lSSAAC M. VELLINGTON,

' OF SAME PLACE.

PRINTING-MACHINE.

SPECFCATIQIU' forming part of Letters Patent'NO. 318,383, dated May 19, 1885.

Application filed January 21, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MAcHRIs, `of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section; Fig. 2, a vertical section on line x x, Eig. l. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the wet. ro ting-roll, and Fig. 4 is a perspective of the device for guiding the cover-paper. y

My invention consists in a machine for printing election-stickers and similar articles, hereinafter more fully pointed out in the claims. r 5 A represents the frame of the machine.

B represents a roller carrying a roll of print-paper, D,which, for stickers, is gummed on one side. f

C represents a roller carrying a roll of cover- 2o paper, E. E represents a guide-roll, and G represent a wetting-roll, journaled in frame A,between which the paper D passes on its way to the l feed and printing rolls. The wetting-roll Gr consists of a hollow cylinder provided with a filling-plug, and having raised anges around one end, to hold a sponge or cloth, u, and having perforations y therein.

H H I represent feed-rolls, the rolls H being short, as shown in Fig. 2, and placed at the ends of the type-cylinder K.

K represents the type-cylinder, journaled in frame A above feed-roll I, and havingslots therein to receive lines of type, L. Any printerwill. understand that the type, instead ofl being set in the slots in cylinder K, may be` cast in soft metal and fastened to the cylinder K, in the same manner as forms are now made for and put on the cylinders of rotary print- 4o ing-presses. "When the type are set in slots, as shown, the cylinder K must run faster than feed -rolls I H to make the `type strike at e proper intervals on paper D.

O, M, and N are inking-rollers for the type, and do not need description, as their construction and operation are familiar to Vper- Vsons acquainted with the operation of printing-presses. Y

P represents the main driving-shaft of the g, operated by cam a on shaft l?.

dotted lines in Fig. 2.

machine, and is operated by a crank or pul- 5o ley fastened thereon. b represents a starwheel secured-to said shaft, meshing into a large star-wheel, d, on the shaft of feed-roll I.

c represents a prolonged tooth bolted to starwheel b so that it will clear star-wheel d. a represents a cam on shaft l).

k o-represent shearing-bars, one above the other, above which the print-paper passes, and between which the cover-paper passes.

n represents a knife-frame secured to frame 6o A by pins passing through slots in the knifep frame and constantly forced upward by a Npring. (shownindottednnesiurig.1.) on the upperend of the frame n is fastened a chine and having its edge beveled' upward toward one end.V To the lower part of frame n is pivoted one end of a lever, s, rocking on pin s.. At the other end of the lever s is a pin, t, so placed that each tooth of star-wheel b will strike it, raise the end of thelever, and depress frame n; When the prolonged' tooth c of the star-wheel strikes the pin t, the frame 1t is depressed more than by the other teeth.

t' represents al-knife-frame similar to n, but 75 being lower invframe A, and raised by lever h represents a knife fastened to frame t', `having a beveled edge, similar to that of knife Z, as shown in m represents a small presser-foot. fastened to frame n in line with the wetting-roll G.

S represents a guide-roll, and Q R a pair of feed-rollsfor feeding the cover-papenf The roll vR has circular grooves o therein, inwh'ich 8 5 lie wires tu, the upper ends of'which bend `over the roll Q, to guide the cover-paper into the opening between the shearing-bars k 0.

I T. UA represent a pairv o'f rolls, in one 'of which, U, are set rows of type, as in cylinder 9o K, for printing the cover. Above these rolls is a folder-knife, Z-such-as is used for folding newspapers-operated by -a cam and lever in the same manner'as knife-frame i. y V W YV are inking-rollers for the type on roll U; f Y w Motion is communicated'to'` the whole Inachine by the driving-shaft P, and thence by knife, l, reaching across the fraxne of the ma- 6 5 SoA - tioned at will, to suit the kind of work to be done on the machine. The speed of the typecylinder K is so proportioned to the speed of the rolls I H that the type will strike the paper at proper distances, and will necessarily vary, in a manner familiar to every mechanic, with the size of cylinder K and the number of rows of type, L, thereon.

The rolls F G Sneed not be driven except by the paper, and the inking-rolls are usually not driven except by friction.

The operation of my invention, when Vused for printing election slips or stickers, is as follows: A continuous roll of print-paper,`

gummed on one side, is placed on roller B with the gummed side outward. This paper D is then led from roller B between roll F and wetting-roll G, the latter having been first filled with water, so that the gummed side of paper D rests on the wet sponge a, and a narrow line along the length of paper D is inoistened by the sponge. Paper D is gripped and fed forward by rolls I H, and is printed by the types on cylinder K as it passes over roll I, which serves as an impression-roll. From these rolls I H paper D passes over shearing-bar o, and at'intervals corresponding with the width ofone line ofprint, or two lines, if so desired, knife vZ is depressed, as hereinbefore described, and, owing to its beveled edge, cuts paper D partly across, the shearing-bar o supporting the paper while being cut. As star-wheel b on the driving-shaft has five teeth, as shown in the drawings, one of which is prolonged by a false tooth, c, knife l will make four cuts partially across paper D, and will then be depressed by tooth c, so as entirely to sever said paper. At this time the presser-footm presses the severed part of paper D against the cover-paper below, sticking that part of paper D which has beenv moistened by sponge u to the cover-paper.

A continuous roll of cover-paper is placed on roller C, led over roll S, between rolls Q n R, and passes over roll Q, under guidingwires w, under shearing-bar o, and along over a bed in the frame ofthe machine. Being fed faster than print-paper D, the cover-paper runs along under folder-knife Z, and just after paper D is completely severed by the fifth stroke of knifel and pasted to the cover-paperv by presser-foot m the knife .7L is raised, as beiore described, by cam a on shaft P, and completely severs the cover-paper. As soon as the cover-paper is severed, folder-knife Z is depressed and forces the cover-paper through a slot in the bed of the machine until it isI gripped by the rolls T U and folded, the folderknife Z rising as soon as the rolls T-U have graspedl the paper. While thecover-paper is passing between the rolls 'E U it is printed by the type on roll U, roll T serving as an impression-roller, and is delivered complete in shape for use.

It is obvious that it is easy so to change the machine that knife Z will sever the paper D at any other time than every fifth cut, and I have adopted the construction shown because in printing election-slips ve are required in each package.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a pair of rolls adapted to feed a strip of paper, a type-cylinder which prints the same in slips, a reciprocating knife adapted partially to sever the printed strip between each slip and completely to sever the same at regular intervals, and a presser-foot adapted to press each printed piece, when severed, against a piece of coverpaper, substantially as shown and described.

2'. In a machine for printing slips, the combination lof the following elements, viz: a pair of rolls adapted to feed a strip of paper, a typeroller adapted to print slips on the paper, a reciprocating knife adapted partially to sever the printed strip between each slip and cornpletely to sever the same at regular intervals, a presser-foot adapted to press each printed piece, as soon as severed, against a piece of cover-paper, a pair of feed-rolls adapted to feed a strip of cover-paper under the printed strip, a reciprocating knife adapted to sever the strip of cover-paper whenever the printed strip is severed, and a folding device, such vsubstantially as described, adapted to fold the severed piece of cover-paper, substantially as shown and described.

3. In combination with the feed-rolls and type-cylinder K, actuated by the star-wheel b, having a prolonged tooth, c, the knife-frame n, carrying the Abeveled knife Z, and the lever s, pivoted at one end to said knife-frame and having at the other end a pin, t, adapted to engage with the teeth of star-wheel b, substantiall y as shown and described. Y

4. The combination of the folding-rolls T and U, the roll U carrying a form of type secured therein, with the reciprocating folderknife Z and rinking-ioll V, substantiallyas described.

5. The combination of the roller B, carrying the strip of paper D, gummed on oneside, the wetting-roll G, the feed-rolls I H, typeeylinder K, knife Z, and presser-foot m, operated substantially as described, with the roller C, carrying the strip of cover-paper E, feedrolls Q R, geared to feed paper E faster than paper D is fed, knife 7c, operated substantially as described, folder-knife Z, and rolls T U, substantially as and for the purposes described.

CHARLES MACHRIS.

Witnesses:

SUMNER COLLINS, Gao. H. LoTHRoP.

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